linux-kernel - [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.18 049/126] net: phy: phylink: ensure the carrier is off when starting phylink

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Message-Id: <20181031230754.29029-49-sashal@kernel.org>
Date:   Wed, 31 Oct 2018 19:06:37 -0400
From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
To:     stable@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@...tlin.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.18 049/126] net: phy: phylink: ensure the carrier is off when starting phylink

From: Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@...tlin.com>

[ Upstream commit aeeb2e8fdefdd5d257a1446351c70cb3df540199 ]

Phylink made an assumption about the carrier state being down when
calling phylink_start(). If this assumption isn't satisfied, the
internal phylink state could misbehave and a net device could end up not
being functional.

This patch fixes this by explicitly calling netif_carrier_off() in
phylink_start().

Signed-off-by: Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@...tlin.com>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
---
 drivers/net/phy/phylink.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phylink.c b/drivers/net/phy/phylink.c
index 5827fccd4f29..44a0770de142 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/phylink.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/phylink.c
@@ -907,6 +907,9 @@ void phylink_start(struct phylink *pl)
 		    phylink_an_mode_str(pl->link_an_mode),
 		    phy_modes(pl->link_config.interface));
 
+	/* Always set the carrier off */
+	netif_carrier_off(pl->netdev);
+
 	/* Apply the link configuration to the MAC when starting. This allows
 	 * a fixed-link to start with the correct parameters, and also
 	 * ensures that we set the appropriate advertisement for Serdes links.
-- 
2.17.1